Slingshot RPM 2012 Kite Review

Kite Features

The RPM is a high performance freestyle kite that also offers everyday accessibility. It is designed to take your ride to a new level and allow you experience a fantastic thrill. It also offers exceptional wakestyle performance. In fact it combines a superb power delivery and pop with precise control and a smooth flight. It is the kite of choice for elite riders like Youri Zoon and Karolina Winkowski, but it can easily accommodate less experienced ones.

Inspired by Youri Zoon’s outstanding performance on the World Tour, the Slingshot RPM stands out as a new generation type of kite that performs great in terms of freestyle and wakestyle and can dominate a wide range of conditions. It is a high performance kite, but can be used by intermediate riders that want to progress fast too. The RPM is built using an Open-C design.

This design provides a perfect blend of power delivery, direct control and massive boost with rider friendly features like excellent depower and relaunch, consistent low end and superb upwind abilities. The RPM uses a splitstrut integrated three strut design which makes it very stable and crisp in the air and prevents flutter and drag. The low profile wingtips provide quick turning and accurate turning control and enhance relaunch. A progressive power steering system is used to provide a direct and sharp control at all times.

The wingtip attachment points are modified to optimize the kite’s overall performance and allow you tune features like bar pressure and turning speed to meet your demands. The RPM excels when unhooked and can perform the most technical tricks with style. It is supplied with Comptsick bar, backpack, bladder repair kit and quick start guide.

Control Bar

The CompStick control bar has been purposely designed to offer the following: performance, convenience, and the highest level of safety. As Slingshot explained, this bar was created with versatility in mind; it was created for the rider who wants to have it all. Slingshot also explained that this control bar is suited to any rider, regardless of his or her riding level.

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